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The SAGE Handbook of Coaching presents a comprehensive, global view of the discipline, identifying the current issues and practices, as well as mapping out where the discipline is going. The Handbook is organized into six thematic sections: Part One: Positioning Coaching as a Discipline Part Two: Coaching as a Process Part Three: Common Issues in Coaching Part Four: Coaching in Contexts Part Five: Researching Coaching Part Six: Development of Coaches It provides the perfect reference point for graduate students, scholars, educators and researchers wishing to familiarize themselves with current research and debate in the academic and influential practitioners' literature on coaching.
Physicality in Coaching: Developing an Embodied Perspective
Physicality in Coaching: Developing an Embodied Perspective
Many students of coaching would be excused for conceptualising coaching as a practice embedded primarily in language. Much of the rapidly expanding practitioner literature has focused on different formulations of skills, techniques and methodologies through which a client's issues can be discussed and explored. Concepts such as the body, embodiment and physicality have been largely absent. For example, within two generally excellent reviews of the field none of the eighteen chapters dealing with ‘theoretical approaches’ (Cox, Bachkirova and Clutterbuck, 2014) or ‘single theory perspectives’ (Stober and Grant, 2006) directly approached the topic of the coach's or the client's physicality. Yet physicality is not absent from practitioners’ thinking or the practice ...
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